Maninder Singh
Maninder Singh, MD
Director of Emergency Healthcare Simulation
NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi and North Central Bronx
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Devotion to the Well-Being of All
Dr. Maninder Singh began his journey into medicine as a volunteer in a hospital emergency department when he was still in high school. He was captivated by the high-pressure environment and the demands on doctors and nurses to think straight and act quickly. And then one day it got real. He had to bring his mother into the ED with severe stomach pains from complications following a hysterectomy. “I was like, ‘Oh wow, these guys are really able to figure out what’s going on,’ ” he recalls.
Dr. Singh went on to graduate from City College’s Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education (now the CUNY School of Medicine) and reach his goal of becoming an emergency doctor. In 2020, he completed a fellowship at NYC Health + Hospitals/Institute of Medical Simulation and Advanced Learning – and stayed on to establish a new simulation fellowship that he has overseen ever since.
Just five years into his career, Dr. Singh is already a veteran leader of simulation education and emergency medicine at Jacobi and North Central Bronx. When COVID-19 descended during his fellowship year, he was part of a team that used in-situ simulation to help hospitals keep up with the unprecedented demand for intubation and make it safer.
Later, when Jacobi was working to become a New York State Department of Health Primary Stroke Center, Dr. Singh led simulations that trained teams from departments throughout the hospital. Sometimes he acted as the patient to simulate neurological deficits. “I take great pride in the groundbreaking work we accomplish despite operating with limited resources,” he says.
Though it was a teenager’s attraction to the excitement of an emergency room that began his path into medicine, Dr. Singh says his decision to work in the city’s public health system was deeply personal, even spiritual. “It’s a choice that is grounded in the Sikh values of seva, or selfless service, and sarbat da bhala, the well-being of all.”